If you Feel Stuck or Powerless WATCH THIS

Aaron Doughty argues that feeling stuck is an illusion we create through negative identity beliefs about ourselves. He shares how a humiliating moment at Barney's New York motivated him to leave his job, and explains that meditation can shift these deep beliefs and change your external reality.
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You are so powerful that you can even create the illusion that you're powerless or that you are stuck. And the cool thing is that once you let go of that, once you realize the truth of the matter, that's when the whole entire energy dynamic changes. And in this video, I'm gonna show you exactly how to do that. Welcome back to another video. My name's Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm gonna be sharing with you how to get unstuck and how to be powerful by understanding that you're doing it to yourself. It's actually what's happening is you're so powerful that you can create the illusion you're not powerful. And when we start to see it from that point of view, we then start to ask new questions. We then start to ask, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I creating this for myself? And anytime we get to something where we feel stuck, What that means is there's some type of definition or block in our own mind. It's a something that— it's a something. It's a something that is there because we almost are insisting that it's there. Now there's been times in my life as where, well, what you do is you just simply let go of that resistance and you allow the stuckness to be there. Many times it then transforms. It's a very powerful thing. And I remember specifically, when we feel stuck, we feel like our story, the story we're telling ourselves, the belief, we believe something to be true and we believe that that story is static. This is the way it is. This is the way it's going to continue to be. And because of that, we stay inside of that reality. I remember specifically as well that it can many times be used as motivation. I remember feeling stuck and powerless in one specific scenario at the old job that I had. Many of you may know my story. I'm just gonna, I used to work at Barney's New York in women's shoes and it was a sales commission job and there was this time when the upper management there I mean, it was there probably the whole time I was there, but they were, it was very much like a corporate type thing where like the store manager was very controlling and he would stress out the managers under him. And then those managers would put stress on us as sales employees. And I worked in women's shoes and there was this day that I went in and I got brought up to the office and there was this office room called the situation room. Don't know why they called it the situation room. Doesn't that sound so negative? Could have been like the conference room or like the magical fairyland room, but no, It was the situation room. So I walk into the situation room and there is the store manager who I didn't really get along with. I thought he was, um, I just thought he was very controlling and negative and way, way too serious. And, uh, it's him, it's my department manager who was a nice guy, but he's also just kind of serious because he was being pressured by the other manager. And then there was also a regional manager. All 3 managers were there and they're like, Aaron, very seriously, come into the situation room and sit down. And I'm like, okay. And I'm, you know, wearing a suit. I'm, you know, it's what I wear, a suit every day to work, you know, selling women's shoes at Barney's New York. Their average price point was like $800. So it was like a high-end, kind of a stuffy type environment, to be honest. And I go in and I sit down and I'm like, okay, what's going on? It's like, will you please, in the situation room, "Look over at the projector." And there was a projector right there. And what they did is they then showed me, they showed me this image, they showed me this video. It's a 10-minute-long video, 10 minutes long. And they wanted me to watch this whole entire 10-minute-long video. And this video was of me, it was a camera that was on me in the back stockroom on my phone. Now here is the thing, at this store, not trying to justify it, but at this store you will be standing around for sometimes 4 hours without a single customer coming in because it's so slow, because it's such a high-end place. You only need like 1 or 2 customers to have a good day. So you just be standing around for 4 hours. So what we would do is we'd have other coworkers, we'd have someone on the sales floor, one of us would go back and just chill for like 30 minutes while there's no customers on the floor, and then we would take turns. So it's kind of like As long as someone's on the sales floor to help someone if they need help, then it was okay. Someone will go in the back and just kind of be on the phone. And this is one of those times where I was on my phone for like 10 minutes straight. Well, what they did is they were making, they wanted me to watch the whole entire 10-minute video in silence with them. And I was like, after about 30 seconds, I was like, okay, I get it. So I was on my phone. You guys don't want me on my phone. They're like, no, Aaron, keep watching the video. And I'm like, okay, so I keep watching the video and I was like, no, after another 15 seconds, like guys, I get the point. And they were like, just keep watching it. And I was like, I was like, I'm not gonna keep watching it. I get the point. It shouldn't be on my phone. And in that moment, the way they talked down to me after, like just in general after that, they talked down to me so much, made me feel so small, so powerless. I felt stuck at that 9 to 5 job I didn't like. Here's what I did though. I used that situation as motivation. After that, they're like, if you ever found doing that again, you're gonna get like last and final or something like that. Like another threat. You can now leave the situation room. Good luck selling shoes and having a good day. It's like, okay, now I'm gonna go and have a great day selling shoes because I'm in such a great mood now that this happened. But here's what I did. I took and I used that as motivation. I used that to change my story. I realized I'm working this 9-to-5 job that I don't really enjoy, and shortly after that, I made the choice to go daily on YouTube, and that changed everything. I remember even as he was talking to me, the 2 or 3 managers were talking to me, I remember thinking to myself, I don't want to ever have a boss. I do not want a boss. The only reason I did sales commission job is because I could put my own intention and have my own, like, reap the own benefits of it from my own intention. And you know, every day was different, so it was commission. So it's like, I kind of liked that. But I was like, after that, I was like, I do not want a boss. I wanna be my own boss. I will never have someone talk to me like that again. So you see, when we talk about being powerless or stuck, sometimes you can use these negative situations and you can reframe them to say no. 'Never again, this means this,' and then you go in a new direction. That's exactly what I did. I may not be living the life of my dreams right now at the level that I am. Maybe if that situation didn't happen because of the meaning I gave it. It comes from meaning. When we talk about, uh, I felt powerless with my whole ex-stepmom situation between 7 and 15 years old where I was beat down physically, mentally, emotionally. Not allowed to have friends, not allowed to eat enough food. Many times just locked outside having to work all day with my brother. And when I look at that, after my dad divorced her when I was 15, then I still felt powerless and I still felt like unworthy. But you want to know when it changed? When I went through my spiritual awakening, I realized the meaning I was giving it. The meaning we give to past situations tends to still have power over us in the now unless we change that meaning. I realized that my spiritual awakening led me That, that negative situation with my ex-stepmom between 7 to 15 years old, that led me to the pressure of my spiritual awakening years later when I was like 21, and it changed my entire life. So I then changed the meaning, and then I started to feel powerful. I started to feel not so stuck because of the meaning wasn't so heavy. This is exactly what it's about. It's about becoming aware of what I call— this is what it is, by the way— I call them identity beliefs. Identity beliefs. Identity beliefs are beliefs about who we are. And if we believe that we are powerless, if we believe we're not worthy, then that is our experience and reality will reflect that back to us. We may feel powerless and go out into the world and then other people treat us like we're not worthy. Other people talk down to us. I've been with people before and I've seen the way someone talks to someone else that I'm with. I'm like, why do you let someone talk to you like that? Or how does someone even talk to you like that? Like they would never talk to me like that. And I don't know if it's my own belief or if my own boundaries, but understand that if you have these negative identity beliefs, they're on autopilot, they're gonna continue to attract the same situations over and over again, which means you continue to feel stuck, you continue to feel like you don't have power, which of course you do. People treat you a certain way, people may take advantage of you, People may siphon your own energy, not value you for who you really are. This is part of the side effect of having what are called negative identity beliefs. And when you change that, it changes everything. When I learned meditation, and more specifically when I learned how to observe these beliefs and completely release them, it changed my whole entire life. I went from working that 9-to-5 job to doing what I love. I went from feeling the pain of my past to realizing how it fueled me. I went from from feeling on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 feeling amazing, 1 feeling not so great, of feeling like a 3 out of 10, which wasn't great at all as my base point, to feeling like a 7 or 8. And it was because I changed those negative identity beliefs that it changed everything. So this really is the key. Change your negative identity beliefs, beliefs about who you are. I used to believe I had ADHD. That was the reality I experienced because I believed it. I changed and I reframed that, and that changed about me. I then used to believe that I wasn't worthy because of the meaning I gave to the past. Therefore, that was my reality and I kept attracting people. I remember I kept attracting people in my life that was the same personality as my ex-stepmom. There was a girl, an ex-girlfriend that was like that. Then there was also a manager that I had at Nordstrom's before I went to Barney's New York. The only two stores I really ever worked for was Nordstrom's for years and then Barney's for years. Nordstrom's. I had a manager that was the same exact way as my ex-stepmom, would talk down to me, same type of thing. I let it happen because I thought that's what I was worthy of. And even I just kept attracting people like that. You wanna know the interesting thing? I had the ex-girlfriend in my life, within a week of breaking up with that ex-girlfriend, I got transferred to the better department at Nordstrom's, which seems like a really great thing, but the manager of that department was the same as my ex-stepmom. There was always someone in my life to control me until I became aware of that pattern. Maybe you find that you keep attracting people in your life that make you feel powerless, make you feel stuck. Understand there's a pattern there, and when you let go of that pattern, that pattern is linked to those identity beliefs. If you change those identity beliefs, it changes everything. And the way that I did that is through meditation. Understanding— not just any meditation though, a meditation that goes beyond the identity. And what I'll do is this video will come out right now when I have something that is now out called Mind Shift Meditations. These are 5 meditations with 5 modules meant to transform your life for you to take your power back, live life on your terms in 5 weeks or less, guaranteed. You can click the link in the top of the description box to check that out. There's also something really cool in there. There's a, a bonus called the Epiphany Notes, which is all my notes inside of my iPad screenshots of many different books I've read with circled sections with little handwritten scribbled notes, and then also all my favorite documentaries, music I listen to. It's called the Epiphany. It's really cool. But anyways, this is something that I'm very passionate about. They're the most powerful meditations I've ever created. The whole entire idea behind it was, can you— you feel stuck, if you feel powerless, if you feel unworthy, it comes from an identity belief. And if you want to change those, I have those 5 meditations will make you go beyond your identity and it will completely change from the inside out so you could start to be empowered to create life on your terms so that you can start to feel worthy to attract someone in your life, to attract and just feel that love from within. And that's the idea of Mind Shift Meditations. It's in the top description box. Check it out right now. It's the best time to join with all the bonuses included. And realize the only reason you're stuck is because you believe you're stuck and there's some attachment that you have to labels. There's some block that you feel because of something you're insisting about your current story. Your story is not static. You can change your story right now. The idea is if you feel stuck right now, you continue to change to feeling stuck. You see what I mean? You're a new person right now. You're a new person right now. It's a new moment. It's a new moment. It's a new moment. But what's happening is we're saying, I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck. You're not stuck. You're just working through this energy. If you allow yourself to let go of that, let go of that belief, let go of the story, you'll let go of being stuck. That's exactly what MindShift Meditations is made for and helps to do. So like I said, you wanna check that out, hit the link in the top of the description box. Other than that, as always, I hope you enjoyed this video. Subscribe if you haven't already. I got a lot more cool videos coming. And as always, peace, much love, and namaste.










